26 W. Stephen Mitchell — Notice of John Fareij. 



the country for many miles in different directions as far as Ayles- 

 bury, accompanied by the land steward (Mr. Farey) and Mr. Bevan, 

 of Leighton, .... to examine the practibility of my arrangement 



of strata They both returned complete converts," — 



Phillips's Memoirs of Smith, p. 40. 



From this time Mr. Farey was an ardent follower and warm 

 advocate of Wm. Smith. Dr. Fitton, in an article communicated 

 to the Edinburgh Eeview, vol. xxix., No. 58, 1818, writes: "Mr. 

 Farey, the other .... friend of Mr. Smith, is himself a geological 

 observer of great activity and unwearied perseverance ; and if 

 zeal were the only qualification of an editor, there could not have 

 been any person better fitted for the task. But the patronage of 

 this gentleman is really a little too vehement, and of such a sort 

 that if we wished to insure the failure of a valuable performance, 

 we should begin by recommending it to his protection." 



He wrote some very strong articles in support of Wm. Smith's 

 claim to consideration as an original discoverer: for example, his 

 papers in the Phil. Mag. on " Mr. Smith's Claims stated," " Geo- 

 logical remarks on Messrs. Ouvier and Brongniart's ' Environs of 

 Paris,' " etc., etc. 



In 1811 Mr. Farey gave to the world a more careful account of 

 the strata of England, as ascertained by Mr. Smith. He had been 

 engaged by the Board of Agriculture to write the General View of 

 the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire for their County Eeports, 

 which they were then having made for the whole of England. 

 There had been already a Eeport on Derbyshire by Mr. Brown, but 

 this was superseded by the Eeport of Mr. Farey, which was there- 

 fore called a reprint. This work was written according to a plan 

 laid down by the Board. But in Section 4, before the Description 

 of the Soils, he inserted a series of paragraphs with the following 

 titles 1 :— 



"The Knowledge of Stratified Masses important" (p. 105). 



"Stratified Masses defined " (p. 106). 



" Sections, or Cutting of Stratified Masses, considered " (p. 106). 



" Application of the above to the Stratification of England, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Wm. Smith, of Buckingham Street " (p. 108). 



" General dip, or Declination of Strata towards the S.B. (p. 108). 



"Continued Basset of Strata across the Island" (p. 108). 



"Discrimination of Alluvial Matters " (p. 109). 



" Particular Organic Eemains peculiar to particular Lamina of 

 Strata " (p. 109). 



"Order of the British Series of Strata " (pp. Ill to 116). 



" Bagshot-heath Sand, London Clay, and Blackheath Sand" (p. 111). 



"Flinty Chalk, Hard Chalk, Chalk Marl " (p. 112). 



" Aylesbury Limestone, Sands, Clays ; Sussex Marble ; Woburn 

 Sand" (p. 112). 



"Clunch Clay; Bedford Limestone, Clay; Barnack Eagstone, 

 Colly weston Slate, Sand, Bath Freestone " (p. 113). 



1 Farey's " Derbyshire," contents, p. xxviii. 



